MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 89, 18 April 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PSSU PRESS ASS'IOIATIOIf London, April 16. Tlie Queen of the Nethotl u d is in- j dicpweii, snflV,riDg from Jfevei hm.KHJ and lassitude. i The Irit-h League in West Clara has' ord-red boycotting. The police en-I eider an army of occupation neceas ny. The Prir-ce and Priueess of Wales have started ou tbeir homeward jiur-[ ney from Copenhagen. \ The Swedish Autarcti; expedition j under Otto Nordanskjold, whiuh sailnd in October lssf, has returned to Tierra d«-l Fuego. The Bishop of Peterborough was thrown from (lis horse yesterday, and [ is stil! U'co sci w.

King £d ward's birthday wili he celebrated on foreign stations on November 9th, and fit Home on May 30th.

The Free Churcbea Confeienca iD London, representing eight million adherents, pi-otesred agmns" (he Education Bill as reactionary and clerical. Many meetings of protest have been held in the provinces. isJeventy-thr-e deaths from small-pax occurred in London last week. Out of 1015 cases reported none who had b;en vaccinated during lhe past ten years have died, excepting 66, wlo were revaccin&ted after < ontact.

New Yoke, April 16. Mr Knox, Attornt-y-Gener.il, vestigating how far the Be»f Trust purviews the Feder ii Statutes. Received 17, 10.49 p.m. New Youk, Apiil 17. The Senata passed Senator Piatt's Bill.

London, April 17. In the appeal Ojmmissioicier of 'Trade for New Zealind v. Bell and Company judgment was r. s rvtd. A High « outt of the Trarsvaal Colony has been established, with Mr Rosa-Innes as president. Sir James Gordon Sprigsr, CapPremier, and the Mayois of S uth African towns are appealing to th>< Empire for funds to erect a cairn aiid statue of Mr Rhodes, on a position commanding a view cf the Cape Peninsula.

Berlin, April 17. In the Reichstag tbe Customs Committes has raised the duty on frozen meat to forty-five marks per double cwt.